Chicago Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Chicago Film Festival Awards
2009 Chicago Film Festival: Oct. 8-22, 2009
 

Tina Mabry’s Mississippi Damned depicts the issues faced by the children of a poor and highly dysfunctional family in rural Mississippi. Earlier this year, the film was given the top prize at Outfest in Los Angeles.
 
International Feature Film Competition

Gold Hugo for Best Film: MISSISSIPPI DAMNED (US)

Silver Hugo for Special Jury Award: FISH TANK (UK)

Silver Hugo for Best Director: Marco Bellocchio for VINCERE (Italy)
Silver Hugo for Best Actress: Giovanna Mezzogiorno of VINCERE (Italy)
Silver Hugo for Best Actor: Filippo Timi of VINCERE (Italy)
Gold Plaque for Best Supporting Actress: Jossie Harris Thacker in MISSISSIPPI DAMNED (US)

Gold Plaque for Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender in FISH TANK (UK) [...]

Venice 2009: Kseniya Rappoport, Giuseppe Capotondi, Filippo Timi

Best actress winner Kseniya Rappoport, filmmaker Giuseppe Capotondi, Filippo Timi at the La Doppia ora photocall at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Filippo Timi

Kseniya Rappoport
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Giffoni 2009: Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Christina Ricci, Filippo Timi

The 39th annual Giffoni Film Festival, dubbed Italy’s biggest youth film festival, was held in the coastal town of Salerno between July 12-25, 2009. Thirty features and 42 shorts were screened in competition, in addition to dozens of special screenings and events.
Among this year’s award winners were Caroline Link’s A Year Ago in Winter, Breno Silveira’s Once Upon a Time in Rio, David Lee Miller’s My Suicide, and Jesper Waldvogel Rasmussen’s See You.
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Giffoni Film Festival artistic director Claudio Gubitosi; Naomi Watts; Liev Schreiber

Alba Rohrwacher

Christina Ricci

Filippo Timi